Ricerc@Sapienza

Abstract · The pa-i-to epigraphic web project · In this paper Mycenaean palaeography is analysed from the
perspective of the new digital technologies. The author highlights the strengths and intrinsic weaknesses
of Mycenaean palaeography performed on the basis of traditional 2d photographs and drawings. In the
second part, the first results of the epigraphic, palaeographic and graphological studies applied to a group
of documents in Linear B from Knossos, digitalized through 3d and rti technique, are presented.

“The Linear B pa-i-to Epigraphic Project” is an epigraphic and philological pilot project aimed at publishing a new critical edition of 94 Linear B tablets from Knossos, kept in the Heraklion Museum where there is mention of the name of the ancient town of Phaestos —pa-i-to.